[PATCH] bracket matching extension

Pavel Roskin proski at gnu.org
Sun Dec 1 09:05:05 UTC 2002


Hello, Nerijus!

> Hmm, that's strange. Pavel commented what he does not like about your
> patch ('does not' doesn't mean that he doesn't like your patch, but only
> some minor things with it) - what's wrong with it? If you are angry that
> Pavel didn't respond earlier - he has life and job also.

That's very true.  Thanks for the reminder :-)

> It is reasonable to expect to wait for an answer even for a week IMHO.

Yes.  Sometimes I regret the replies that I have sent too fast.  If I get
time to think and check facts, the response is usually better.

> Of course, there are projects with better response time, but they
> usually have paid developers. BTW, Pavel is one of the best maintainers
> I saw (and I work with a lot of open source projects) - he comments
> what's wrong with patches, does not take poorly written code, looks at
> security aspects, etc.

I really appreciate your words.

By the way, it takes a terrible amount of time to write or fix the code if 
I know that nobody will fix it after me.

Another problem - most code was written long ago and not by me.  I'm
trying to enforce rules that were not in effect when the bulk of code was
written.  This means that I often have to clean up existing code, so that
it doesn't serve as a bad example for the new developers.  That takes
time too.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin




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